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Sundar will be the CEO of both Google and Alphabet

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Re: Sundar will be the CEO of both Google and Alphabet

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Post by dwnvoted2hell »

gtirloni wrote: post #73
raldi wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Nah, anyone used to reading Google press releases knows that a subject line of, "An Update on X" always means X is being shut down, and thus, "A letter from Larry and Sergey" could mean nothing else except they're stepping down.

This meme has to die. It's time.

This company has to die. It's time. It used to be cool to steal people's information for profit, but no more.

Edit: I'm sorry...it appears theft is still the coolest thing ever.

Edit: Real cowards downvote! They also look for other people's postings and downvote all those too! What a "great" forum for the sharing of "free-thought"!

Re: Sundar will be the CEO of both Google and Alphabet

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Post by tootie »

nvrspyx wrote: post #25

I see a few comments praising Sundar. As someone who doesn’t follow closely, but feels that Google has deteriorated dramatically under his watch, does someone mind explaining the reasoning for said praise?

They've done very well from a product perspective as well as dollars and cents. And I think he hasn't absorbed much blame for the culture problems. At least not yet.

Re: Sundar will be the CEO of both Google and Alphabet

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Post by mirekrusin »

ixtli wrote: post #85
senthil_rajasek wrote: post #65

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I cannot tell if you are being serious or you are brainwashed. My understanding of Google's history is their algorithms started as providing answers that the world already knew but could not find easily. Over time they had to handle multiple lawsuits, harassments by entrenched groups that were upended by opening up of knowledge. These adjustments / reactions made the algorithm look biased. This disputed quote by Card…

You're reading far too much into what im saying. I'm not calling google a bad actor (though certainly I think they can be for reasons that have little to do with the search algorithm.) I'm saying that there is bias encoded here and, further as i thought was clear, im not saying this is a bad thing.

The bias was introduced to unbiased algorithm because people found it biased, that's why it's unbiased bias now.

Re: Sundar will be the CEO of both Google and Alphabet

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Post by emrehan »

Dear Larry and Sergey,

Thank you for creating Google.

Nobody could prove that without it the web would have been a better place. You couldn’t have known what’s to come when you were raising hundreds of thousands of dollars as two students in 1998. Maybe your leadership has been one of the least evil among the possibilities in the evil world we live in.

However, we know what is it like to lose control of your company, and how it could inspire dystopian novels under your leadership now. There’re many lessons for all the entrepreneurs to take from your story.

I sincerely hope that you would prioritize the greater benefit rather than the Google’s benefit as years pass.

Sincerely, A Non-Googler, one of the 7.7 billion

Re: Sundar will be the CEO of both Google and Alphabet

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Post by MikeTheGreat »

whoisjuan wrote: post #69
nvrspyx wrote: post #25

I see a few comments praising Sundar. As someone who doesn’t follow closely, but feels that Google has deteriorated dramatically under his watch, does someone mind explaining the reasoning for said praise?

Honestly, I'm with you on this one. Sundar seems like a good maintainer of the status quo and that's probably wise since the business keeps growing (growing revenue, growing market cap and growing free cash flow), but Google's evolution on cloud infrastructure/services and hardware are honestly kind of lame. I mentioned those two because they seem to be their big bets now. When compared to Satya who is thriving with…

After having read [that Quiet book](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quiet:_The_Power_of_Introverts...) I think it's fascinating that "high profile, exuberant" are conflated with "innovation-driven leadership".

To be clear - I'm not criticizing this particular post or person (whoisjuan, anyways? :) ), but I think it's worth noting these little hints that outgoing and extroverted are thought to be synonymous with "good leadership" (in the US, at least)

Re: Sundar will be the CEO of both Google and Alphabet

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Post by UncleMeat »

andrewstuart wrote: post #14

Google needs to fix its reputation for killing products. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/04/googles-constant-pro...

I find it stunning that of all of the communities it seems to be HN that has jumped on this idea the most. Surely people entrenched in the startup world understand the value of pivoting and dropping products that aren't working.
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